Word: lsts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...East China Sea over hundreds of miles was plowed into moving, triangular furrows as the great U.S. amphibious force bore toward Okinawa. In the center of the mighty array were 1,213 vessels carrying 182,000 assault troops and their gear of war. Supporting the transport and LSTs was the largest fleet concentration in naval history-nearly 1,500 war vessels, more than 40 aircraft carriers, 18 battleships, scores of cruisers. On the outer ring of the armada, far beyond the men on the bridges of the lordly carriers, rode the destroyers, the "small boys" of the fleet, charged with...
...airfield barracks were soaked with kerosene; then a captain ran from one to another, setting them afire with a flaming broom. At Inchon, the port troops and thousands of civilians were evacuated under the guns of warships of five nations (U.S., British, Canadian, Australian, Dutch). The last two LSTs were floated off the mud flats by a high tide as the Chinese were swarming into the port area...
...first time it looked as if most of the 20,000 would get through. A vast armada of ships-freighters, transports, LSTs, carriers and other warships of the Seventh Fleet-were waiting for them. Vice Admiral Charles T. Joy, Far East naval commander, held a secret conference on his flagship with the X Corps' Major General Edward M. Almond and other brass. Joy said the Navy was ready for "any eventuality"-which was official doubletalk for evacuation...
Soon after Seoul fell on Sept. 26, the U.S. 1st Marine Division and 7th Infantry Division which had made the landings at Inchon found themselves back on LSTs and assault transports. Reinforced by the newly arrived 3rd Infantry Division, they were slated to make another amphibious landing-this time at Wonsan on Korea's east coast. But on Oct. 10, just before what was to have been Dday, troops of the R.O.K. I Corps, driving overland, captured Wonsan ahead of schedule. The war had moved so fast that the big knockout assault scheduled to be commanded by Major General...
...homage at a hillside cemetery where lie Americans and Koreans killed in the Inchon campaign. He was host at a dinner for Marine regimental commanders, giving weatherbeaten Colonel Lewis ("Chesty") Puller of the 1st Marine Regiment the place of honor. On the Inchon waterfront Almond saw tanks loaded aboard LSTs. He flew in a Piper Cub 200 miles south to inspect the 7th Infantry Division in another staging area; he watched the doughfeet, stripped to the waist in the warm South Korean sun, maneuver through combat exercises in paddy fields and up hillsides...